Grand Valley Writers Series to feature faculty

The Grand Valley State University Writers Series continues its readings Jan. 28 by writing department faculty members Amorak Huey and Caitlin Horrocks.

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The Grand Valley State University Writers Series continues its readings Jan. 28 by writing department faculty members Amorak Huey and Caitlin Horrocks.

The event will begin at 7 p.m. at the Cook DeWitt Center, Allendale Campus,1 Campus Drive, Allendale. Huey, a long-time newspaper editor and reporter, is in his third year as an assistant professor of writing. His chapbook, The Insomniac Circus, is forthcoming in 2014 from Hyacinth Girl Press. Huey’s poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012, Poet’s Market 2014, The Southern Review, Rattle, Menacing Hedge, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, The Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review and many other print and online journals. He will read poems from two manuscripts-in-progress and from a forthcoming chapbook.

Horrocks is the author of the story collection, This Is Not Your City. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushcart Prize XXXV, The Paris Review, Tin House, One Story and elsewhere. Her work has won awards including the Plimpton Prize, and fellowships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences. She was formerly the 2006-2007 Theresa A. Wilhoit Fellow at Arizona State University. Currently, she is an associate professor of writing at Grand Valley State University and the fiction editor of The Kenyon Review.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information: 616-331-3411.

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